John Lewis Quotes

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

You just have to do what you know is right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.